Thursday, August 26, 2010

[Orel here.] Hold your breath, folks: The Dodgers are in position for their first series sweep since 1932. What's that — it's actually since the end of June? Whatever, same diff. But it'll be a hard-earned win; Munosterios has been yo-yoing back and forth between the bullpen and starting rotation, while Yovani Gabba Gabba will apparently be wearing an orange jumpsuit under his uniform. Yo-yos versus jumpsuits. Is that what this season has come to?

Oh yeah, and there's this (courtesy of SoSG stalwart Josh S):

Tomorrow is the real test of the Collins Curse. If they win, it will be the first non-NL-West road sweep since 6/19/08.

So here we go! Morning baseball, everybody!

(That main paragraph brought to you by Dalwhinnie 15-year-old Scotch.)

There is a famous old hotel in Milwaukee that has long been rumored to be haunted. Many sports teams know of this tale and some actively refuse to sleep in it when their team is visiting. So Dodger players decided to do some rookie hazing on Kenley Jansen using the ghost tale as a theme. Apparently they started working on him for around two weeks, telling him about the hauntings and generally freaking him out.

Yesterday, some of the players rigged up a system using fishing line attached to the curtains in Jansen's room that can be manipulated from the outside.

After yesterday's game when Janesn got back to his room, and had a chance to settle in, they started with the curtains. This freaked himn out of course as he sat and read in his room.

THEN he was further freaked out by an elk call that Broxton had put under the pillow, and Jansen ended up bolting from the room.

The final piece of the puzzle is that Jansen ended up sleeping on the floor in Kuo's room, presumably with the light on.

Epale, everybody! Just checking the scores and the game thread between gigantic piles of work.

@Josh

I'd make my argument for Liverpool fandom, but you've already got the Dodgers providing you with uninspired on-field performances and suspect ownership situations. I do find that it's a smooth transition between seasons, though.